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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE F.- WHIPPLE AND EFFINGER E. WHIPPLE, OF RACINE, WISCON- SIN; SAID EFFINGER E. WVHIPPLE ASSI'GNOR TO SAID CLARENCE'F.

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END-BOARD FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,544, dated March 16, 1880.

' Application filed January 13, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that we, CLARENCE F. WHIP PLE and EFEINGER E. WHTPPLE, both of Racine, in the State of 4Wisconsin, have invented 5 certain new and useful Improvements in End- Board Fastenings for Wagon-BoXes, of which the following is a specication, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof.

To Our invention relates to a mode of operating the tie-rod with reference to the sideboards, whereby the end-board may be removed .or let down without withdrawing the tie-rod therefrom.

lt consists, primarily, in slotting the sideboards to admit the tiered by a lateral instead of the customary longitudinal movenient ofthelatter; and, secondarily, in applying metal plates to the slots, which plates are prozo vided with lugs or recesses adapted to hold the head and nut of the rod firmly to the sideboards.

Figure l shows the slot in the side-board horizontal, with tie-rod therein, and plate fitted to receive the nut on the latter. Fig. 2 shows the opposite plate fitted to receive the head of the rod. Fig. 3 shows the head-plate recessed, and is a section of side-board and plate through the horizontal slot. Fig. 4

3o shows the slot Vertical.

A is the end-board, and B the side-board, of a wagon-box. G is the tie-rod, having a solid head, T, at one end and a screw and nut, N, at the other. D D are slots in the side-boards. Gr G are cleats secured to the side-boards, and H H similar cleats fastened to the end-board. E E are metal plates, slotted to coincide with the slots in the sideboards, and rinly secured to the latter. They 4o are provided with lugs F F, behind which the head and nut or other fastening of the tie-rod are drawn and held in securing the end-board in place.

The head of the rod is preferably T-shaped,

as shown, and the lugs or recess by which it is held straight, while the lugs or recess on the opposite plate will be curved or otherwise shaped to conform with the nut or other fastening used.

The tiefrod is held in place upon the end- 5o board by the cleats H H, behind which it passes, and, being admitted laterally into the slots, does not need to be withdrawn from the end-board when the latter is removed or inserted. The nut N need not, therefore, be run entirely off the rod, but only so far as to allow the nut and head to pass the lugs F F.

For the same reason a permanently-pivoted cani or other permanent device may be attachedto the rod in place of the nut, with the 6o advantage, in both cases, of great convenience and no liability to loss. l

In connection with the horizontal slot, additional fastenings-as hinges or doWel-pins L L-m-may be used, though by locating the rod C near the middle of the endboard special stays for the bottom need not be used, the rod cooperating with the cleats G G, against which the end-board rests, to hold the 'same firmly upright and in place.

Instead of the continuous rod G, short end rods may be secured to the end-board, and a tightening device applied to each.

The plates E are not in all cases necessary; but they are in many cases indispensable and always desirable. They are, moreover, pref erably of form to'enter and cover the inner surface of the slot, as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 3.

In the absence of plates the side-boards will 8o be themselves recessed. I

IVhen the slot is vertical, as shown in Fig. 4, the usual external cleat, G', is used to receive the outward pressure, if any, upon the end-board.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an end-board fastening, the slots D D, in combination with the projecting rod C, or 9o its equivalent, and suitable devices for securing the rod within the slots, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The slotted plates E, provided with lugs or recesses, substantially as and for the pur- I In witness that we claim the above-described poses specified.

3. The combination of slotted side-boards B, end-board A, hinges or doWeLpins L, and the tie-rod C, provided with suitable devices for securing' its projecting ends in the slots, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. rlhe combination of slotted side-boards B, cleats G G', one or both, end-board A, and tie-rod, With suitable devices for securing the rod vin the slots, substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

improvements as our invention We hereunto set our hands this 10th day of January, A. D. 15 l CLARENCE F. WHIPPLE. EFFINGER E. WHIPPLE.

In presence of- J oHN G. HUGGINs, D. J. MoREY. 

